The Tampa Bay Buccaneers said Friday that a third player had a MRSA infection, a thorny strain that has been a concern in N.F.L. locker rooms over the past decade.
The team did not release the name of the player. The other two players are guard Carl Nicks, whose infection earlier this season recently resurfaced, and kicker Lawrence Tynes, who is seeking treatment away from the team and is on the team's reserve list with a nonfootball injury.
The announcement came two days before the Buccaneers were to host Philadelphia and several years after some Cleveland Browns players who had the infection claimed the team misdiagnosed their problems and failed to clean its facilities properly.
The Buccaneers have been working with Dr. Deverick J. Anderson, co-director of the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network, since September to identify the infections and review protocols for preventing them. Anderson said that the first two cases were unrelated and that the third case had not been fully diagnosed. He said he did not know why three Buccaneers had the infection and no players on other teams appeared to have it.
"The reality is we all get exposed to MRSA pretty regularly, but because we have intact skin, we don't run into any problems with it," Anderson said.
An N.F.L. spokesman said the league was working with the team and players union to "aggressively address the matter." DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the N.F.L. Players Association, said it had been in contact with the player representatives on the Buccaneers and would speak with the representatives on the Eagles.
"This underscores the need for a leaguewide, comprehensive and standardized infectious disease protocol," Smith said. "It also calls for improved accountability measures on health and safety issues by the N.F.L. over the clubs."
Staph infections are common in locker rooms because of the warm, moist conditions that encourage the growth of bacteria. Football players are particularly susceptible because of the sport's skin-to-skin contact and because they frequently get cuts and bruises. The bacteria often live harmlessly in the front of the nostrils and on skin surfaces but take hold in open wounds; common versions are easily treated.
But in the past decade or so, the strain known as MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which is resistant to some antibiotics, has affected the careers of a few N.F.L. players, including offensive lineman Jeff Novak, who played for the Jacksonville Jaguars and later filed a lawsuit against the team, claiming malpractice. The former Browns receiver Joe Jurevicius sued his team after an infection in his knee kept him from playing for a year. Tight end Kellen Winslow was suspended for a game after alleging that the Browns concealed his illness from teammates.
In Twitter posts in August, Amanda Tynes, the wife of Lawrence Tynes, disputed claims by the Buccaneers that her husband was responding well to treatment.
On Thursday, when news broke that Nicks was again dealing with problems from MRSA, she wrote: "Thoughts are with Carl Nicks. MRSA is such a serious infection. I hope he seeks OUTSIDE doctors whose main concern is getting him healthy."
Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at the Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, said: "Weight rooms, the close interpersonal contact, plus the interruption of skin surfaces like cuts and bruises — they provide an opening niche, and once there, the staph can go to town. Even with big football players, the staph will win."
A survey by the N.F.L. Team Physicians Society found a total of 60 infections across the league between 2003 and 2005; a subsequent survey showed the number of infections dropped to 33 between 2006 and 2008.
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